1. You visited Layla in the night in stealth,
And sought her and vowed offerings.

2. But she appeared, bequeathing in separation
A crack in my heart fleeing away.

3. Like the crack of a glass bottle - the skill
Of glassmakers cannot mend it.

4. A queen who dwelt among hostile people
And a rugged land.

5. With what she graced the garden of palm trees
And the garden of date palms, until they became

6. Like the cold of intense winter amidst the branches
When water mixed with joy in it

7. And it shone like the radiance of a cold East
Like the thorns of torrents, saddening the ostriches.

8. As if a demon of insanity
Mixed with it and a madman bewildered.

9. And it heated the grape of Anah after fermenting -
The vintner doubted whether to discard it.

10. And if she sways intending to stand
She totters as you have seen the young camel.

11. She had a king who feared suspicions
When doubt mixed with conscience.

12. When the brave descended, the army became
Wretched, deviant, manifest, jealous.

13. He says to his servants, “Hurry the departure
And lower your eyes from us and march away.”

14. So he cannot prevent a companion
Nor prevent her door, nor is able to flee with her.

15. So she appeared with a brilliant beauty
Though there was languor in her glance.

16. A creature of perfect nature like the moon,
She has not seen a sun or a bright morrow.

17. She cools with the cold of a cloak of bride
Embroidered with musk in summer.

18. And on a night when a dog cannot
Bark but whimper, she grows warm.

19. You see her wear silk openly
But she lines with that silk on the inside.

20. When she adorns a wrist with two bracelets
Joined by pearls in a rare combination,

21. And above it an emerald necklace
And a ruby that misses something precious,

22. With it your heart took flight from you
And you found yourself confused or perplexed,

23. Although when she saw me come
She said with sight that discerned:

24. “She saw a man of distant lands
Of differing nature, blind and sightless.

25. “For calamities made me stumble
And what you know was borrowed.”

26. When the guide of a youth in the country
Obeyed the prince and feared stumbling

27. When walking, avoided ease and thorns and roughness,
In that is what benefits the youth,

28. And which man does not meet misfortunes,
And a wilderness in which people lose their way?

29. I traversed it when the listeners
Heard the cricket's singing in it.

30. With a she-camel of Thumail
It fulfilled the goal after a difficult journey.

31. A beautiful one who lies with the saddlebags
When the sinful women deny.

32. To a king like the crescent of the sky,
Most faithful, glorious and benign,

33. Tall, sublime, protecting the guest
And giving to the needy.

34. You are tremendous and a glorious man
And your sea among men rises above seas.

35. You have favored me with abundant gifts
While stinginess in me was great.

36. So my family is your ransom on days of estrangement
When the fetter leaves my steps short.

37. And my family is your ransom in battle
When the war cries of men grow loud.

38. Ask Tamim while eloquence is with me,
And if you conceal, you will find me aware."

39. They wish you in absence what they never
Cease to build at every worthy watering place.

40. So you set out your family from their people,
And your stirring met with slight success.

41. And when you met the deceivers,
You found God over them All-Powerful.

42. And you prepared for war its furnishings -
Long spears and stallions.

43. And coats of mail of David's weaving,
Led with the army brigade after brigade,

44. When they throng in the narrow space
Crowding each other tightly.

45. They have a bell like the rustle of gravel
Struck by night winds in the black dark.

46. And a groaning that tires their champions
As the outstrippers tired the laggard.

47. Your steeds enjoy comfort in summer,
Honored with barley and chaff.

48. Their necks—their trunks—like a marrow bone
Whittled at by the beaks of eagles.

49. And no escaping a raid in the autumn
Until you defeat the shameless cheat.

50. They compete with the plateau does
Disheveled when they ascend the hills.

51. You are the generous one, and you are the one who,
When spirits filled up the chests,

52. Deserves the stab on the day of meeting
That makes the women stab the breasts.

53. And no surging wave from the sea of rats
Covers the sandbar and climbs over the dykes,

54. Capsizing ships with its tusks
And felling many a worn-out house,

55. With more generous than it in what he possesses
So he gives the hundred and gives the few.